| THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: NOVEMBER 25, 2002 Our statement on what should be done about North Korea (hint: regime change) can be found here. NEWS NORTH KOREA SAYS 1994 NUCLEAR DEAL IS DEAD, AGAIN REFUSES TO ALLOW OIL INPECTORS, BANS U.S. CURRENCY Stalinist North Korea, reacting to the U.S. decision to suspend oil shipments to the North that were part of the 1994 nuclear power deal (see last NK Report), declared the deal dead as a result, and blamed the U.S. for it (CNN). Of course, when they admitted to their nuclear weapons program last month � a clear violation of the deal � they had declared it �nullified� (see 10/21/02 NK Report). They dropped that line as a slew of officials from the U.S., Japan, and South Korea talked about keeping the deal, which calls for two nuclear power plants in the North and the annual shipping of millions in fuel oil, alive. Now that the goodies have stopped coming, they have reverted to the old line. Among some other things the Stalinists did to tweak the U.S.: refuse to allow oil inspectors to examine the last shipment, which reached port last week (BBC 11/22/02), and ban the U.S. dollar in the North (BBC 11/23/02). Stop the North Korean Nuclear Power Plants: North Korea has now admitted it has nuclear weapons program, but the 1994 agreement to build two nuclear power plants for the Stalinists has yet to die. While the Administration apparently waits for the right time to kill the deal, keep the pressure on them to do the right thing.Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to end the 1994 deal, now. PAKISTAN DENIES NEW YORK TIMES REPORT OF NUCLEAR AID TO NORTH KOREA The New York Times, cited by the BBC, reported that Pakistan gave parts required to develop uranium-based nuclear weapons in exchange for �missile parts to enable its nuclear arsenal to reach �every strategic site in India.�� Naturally, Pakistan � ostensibly a U.S. ally in the terrorist war and definitely an ally of North Korea�s biggest friend in the world, Communist China � denied the claim. LUGAR WANTS �CONSTRUCT� WITH NORTH KOREA ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM Senator Richard Lugar (Republican-Indiana), incoming Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he wanted to keep alive a version of the 1994 nuclear power deal, saying the U.S. �need(s) a construct that stops the production of more weapons by North Korea� (Washington Times). As reported in the last NK Report, the Bush Administration may kill the deal after South Korea�s December elections. NORTH KOREA COULD MAKE PLUTONIUM BOMBS NOW, URANIUM BOMBS IN 2005 A CIA report obtained by � who else? � Bill Gertz (Washington Times) notes that the Stalinists could �begin producing enough plutonium to make up to 50 bombs a year� should the 1994 nuclear deal �collapse,� which it may very well have (see above). Meanwhile, they also have the capacity to build uranium-based nuclear weapons, starting in 2005, which of course violates the deal as well. Henry Sokolski, a leading critic of the 1994 deal whose analyses are often cited in the NK Report � he has a piece in Commentary/Analysis � had this to say: �All this suggests that trying to fine-tune an agreement for plutonium or uranium is a mistake. We've got to change the regime.� (Emphasis added). �SAY THAT AGAIN?� That�s how the Washington Post began its article on the Stalinists� apparent admission to nuclear weapons, which, as reported in the last NK Report, may have been a slip of the tongue and was not repeated later that day. Of course, �North Korea offered no explanation for the change � or on the fate of the broadcaster.� Kudos to Post reporter Doug Struck for that reminder of how Stalinists operate. JAPAN SAYS NORMALIZATION TALKS NOT LIKELY, DUE TO ABUDCTEE ISSUE A Japanese cabinet official cast doubt on any talks with the North on establishing diplomatic relations due to disagreements �over the abduction issue� (BBC). The five abductees the Stalinists admit are alive are all in Japan, but their children and the husband of one of them are still in North Korea. Japan is insisting those relatives come to Japan; the Stalinists insist the five abductees return to the North. IS CHARLES JENKINS A KIDNAP VICTIM TOO? Meanwhile, one of the few apparent certainties of the horrifying kidnappings of thirteen Japanese by North Korea was that the aforementioned husband of one of the five victims the North admitted survived � Hitomi Soga � was an American military deserter. Well, the family of Charles Jenkins, Hitomi�s husband, tells the National Post that they believe he was kidnapped, too. Given the Stalinist history with the truth, one could actually believe them. Meanwhile, Jenkins himself will meet with the U.S. Ambassador to Japan this week. Japan has asked the U.S. not to grant Jenkins amnesty, on the assumption it will make him more willing to leave the Stalinist regime. The Washington Times (third paragraph) report does not mention the Stalinists, who will likely watch the meeting. NORTH KOREAN NAVY CROSSES BORDER AGAIN; SOUTH FIRES WARNING SHOTS The North Korean navy has again crossed the Northern Limit Line into South Korean waters. A patrol boat went two kilometers into South Korean waters before a South Korean navy warship met it. After the warship fired two warning shots, the Stalinist boat retreated to North Korean waters. The last such incident lead to a gun battle that killed over 20 (see 7/1/02 and 7/8/02 NK Reports). Reports: CNN, BBC HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RIPS COMMUNIST CHINA ON NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES Human Rights Watch put the spotlight on the hundreds of thousands of North Korean refugees hiding in Communist China. The PRC usually sends back any refugee it finds from the Stalinist regime that has led the North into a massive famine. HRW notes that since refugees who get found and sent back end up either in prison or executed, they are at the mercy of the people in the PRC. Report: CNN The results are horrifying for those who meet the wrong person on the Communist Chinese side of the border � �extortion, rape, human trafficking, torture and death� are common, as is forced prostitution, known as �sex slavery� there. Nearly 100 refugees from the North have escaped to the South through embassies of democratic nations in Communist China. NORTH KOREA CREATES �SPECIAL TOURIST ZONE� The Stalinists are trying the �special zone� again, with a planned �special tourist zone� around Mount Kumgang. The last �special zone� they attempted was in Sinuiju. That fell apart when the man picked to run the zone � Yang Bin, a �private� businessman from Communist China � ended up in a PRC jail for tax evasion (see 10/14/02 NK Report). Report: BBC COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS HENRY SOKOLSKI SPEAKS AGAIN, RIPS �MISGUIDED FEAR� OF APPEASEMENT Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Washington-based Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, rips those whose �misguided fear� is pushing them to reviving the 1994 nuclear power deal in National Review Online. He also calls for an anti-Stalinist policy focusing on �containing Pyongyang and pushing regime change.� ON JAPAN AND NORTH KOREA Cited in the Washington Times, the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun tells its government to be �steadfast� on the issues in its talks with the Stalinists. Meanwhile, Charles Scanlon (BBC) looks at how the ethnic Korean community in Japan is absorbing the shock of the Stalinists admission, which in many cases is turning ties to it among Japan�s ethnic Koreans into an �embarrassment� they are quickly shedding. CATO DEFENSE ANALYST SAYS PULL OUT OF KOREA Ted Galen Carpenter, CATO Institute, says in the Washington Times that the North Korean admission that it has a nuclear weapons program is a signal to pull out and let the North�s neighbors handle it. The fact that one of them, Communist China, is a Stalinist ally and more interested in kicking the U.S. out of Asia then the North�s nuclear ambitions did not seem to register with him. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the 2008 Olympic Games being awarded to Beijing, the China e-Lobby has begun a petition for an American boycott of those games. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. 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